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Topic: Questions from "The Graveyard" (Read 9004 times)

1. How many people died by the hand of King in this story2. When he said 7 graves , 1 with Lucy, who are inside the 6 others graves ?, are they the same that he called the dolls ? The nurse, Jesse Bell, Mary The Hooker, The Reverend ?

Don't know how many people died, but I'm pretty sure each of the six graves had one of the killed victims in it, and the seventh one had Lucy sleeping in it. There is a line in one of the songs that goes: "Thats not Lucy, thats someone else you got".

There's at least 3 that the Lunatic killed for sure. One is the nurse he takes the key from while "Waiting In the Dark" which is of course how he escapes. Then there is Jeremiah the grave digger: "I can't believe he wasn't stronger!" and Mary the hooker who was apparently performing her services at the church. The other graves could have been filled with other previously dead people for all we know.

This album is a masterpiece, and the story is just brilliant. And I really like all these sentences that is used during the album, like the ones mentioned in this thread: "Thats not Lucy, thats someone else you got" , "I can't believe he wasn't stronger!"

This album is a masterpiece, and the story is just brilliant. And I really like all these sentences that is used during the album, like the ones mentioned in this thread: "Thats not Lucy, thats someone else you got" , "I can't believe he wasn't stronger!"

don't forget "my hands are so much stronger than her itsy bitsy little head!"

there was already a topic about the Graveyard, the daddy part has been discussed there

Bumping an old thread, sorry! I was searching on the forum trying to find out more about the lyrics of "Daddy" on The Graveyard. I wondered if the linked thread from this post might have the info I'm after, but the link is dead.

So, are the lyrics in the first half of "Daddy" written from Lucy's perspective about Mayor McKenzie, or from King's character's perspective? They seem to reference an undisclosed event...

Bumping an old thread, sorry! I was searching on the forum trying to find out more about the lyrics of "Daddy" on The Graveyard. I wondered if the linked thread from this post might have the info I'm after, but the link is dead.

So, are the lyrics in the first half of "Daddy" written from Lucy's perspective about Mayor McKenzie, or from King's character's perspective? They seem to reference an undisclosed event...

Years ago, in an interview for Metal Maniacs magazine, King said that in that song, the ghost of his / the lunatic's dead father shows up. He is talking to the ghost - pleading his innocence, but the ghost is looking at him disapprovingly. When Daddy fades away, the lunatic feels that he is being abandoned (disowned!), that's when he starts to rage at the mayor.

Of course, the lunatic cannot be trusted to have everything straight in his head. So, maybe he was guilty... I cannot say and that's why the story is so cool.

Years ago, in an interview for Metal Maniacs magazine, King said that in that song, the ghost of his / the lunatic's dead father shows up. He is talking to the ghost - pleading his innocence, but the ghost is looking at him disapprovingly. When Daddy fades away, the lunatic feels that he is being abandoned (disowned!), that's when he starts to rage at the mayor.

Of course, the lunatic cannot be trusted to have everything straight in his head. So, maybe he was guilty... I cannot say and that's why the story is so cool.

Wow! I never knew that! I always had the same doudt! I thought that was Lucy speaking for the first half song (the sobbing part), and then the Lunatic starting to rage at McKenzie! And about the "fading away" lines, I thought it was Lucy addressing her father during the fight! Now it has more sense! Thank you so much paulcoz! Everything is clearer now (Clearer than daylight of course! )!

Years ago, in an interview for Metal Maniacs magazine, King said that in that song, the ghost of his / the lunatic's dead father shows up. He is talking to the ghost - pleading his innocence, but the ghost is looking at him disapprovingly. When Daddy fades away, the lunatic feels that he is being abandoned (disowned!), that's when he starts to rage at the mayor.

Of course, the lunatic cannot be trusted to have everything straight in his head. So, maybe he was guilty... I cannot say and that's why the story is so cool.

Thanks for that! I guessed the question would have been asked before but I couldn't find it by searching. Thanks to KingOfTheRotten for fixing the link too!

Another cool little detail someone else on this forum noticed and pointed out:

(Meet Me At Midnight)Call me sick in the head but I would never lie to youI worked for the manMayor McKenzie is an old perverted swineI caught him one night, molesting his own little child

(Daddy)Daddy don't look at me like thatI didn't do it...HE did...It was HIMI could never...I could neverI wasn't even there

He.. wasn't there! A bit of a contradiction.

Ok, now I need explainations! I thought that the Lunatic was mentally healt before witnessing the mayor molesting his own daughter, and when he told nobody believed him and was accused to be insane! So they locked him to the sanytarium, and then, due to the forced therapy and the whole situation, he started to going crazy (you know, things like that used to happen for real)!Now I'm starting to guess that he was ALWAYS a lunatic, and he alone did the whole thing! McKenzie is innocent!Wow... I feel like we unlocked a forgotten vault! Now I need to dig The Graveyard! Yeah, I'm digging The Graveyard!

It is stated in the foreword in the booklet that the lunatic was wrongly accused and incarcerated, therefore the mayor was the one who abused Lucy. But in the story conveyed through the actual songs there doesn't seem to be any concrete evidence of either the lunatic or the mayor's guilt. The lunatic seems an unreliable narrator. One person's word against another, the mayor was taken more seriously.